Warning: Yahoo Domains Increases Price from $9.95 to $34.95
A few years ago when Yahoo domains first started offering domain reg services they were charging $1.99 for unlimited .com domains.
That was a sweet deal, so I picked up a bunch of domains. I’ve been transferring them out since Yahoo Domain services are terrible for domaining (example: they have no push capabilities so to sell a domain registered with Yahoo, you need to transfer it out of there).
Anyway, I still have 11 domains registered with Yahoo Domains. These are domains I was lazy to transfer over to Go Daddy so I just renewed them with Yahoo for $9.95 which is more than I pay for domains but as I already wrote, I was lazy.
Needless to say I was shocked when I got this email from Yahoo Domains:
Talk about bait and switch. Lure you in for $1.99 than increase it to $9.95 and now they’re sticking to you for $34.95.
I don’t know if they’re on crack or they just want to weed out domainers so only small business suckers who don’t know $34.95 per year for a domain registration is complete rip off, are left with Yahoo Domians.
Needless to say the transfer of my remaining domains with Yahoo Domains to Go Daddy is in progress. Soon Yahoo Domains will be nothing buy a memory for me.
I just wish the small business owner would research to easily find domains at under $10 per year before being ripped off by Yahoo Domains.
Alan,
Wow, $34.95 for a domain huh? Hmmm…maybe Yahoo doesn’t want to be in the domain business…or they are making $$$ on the domains they are selling?
Dunno.
Perhaps it’s time to visit http://namecheap.com and get ‘em for $9 or less when you have a coupon?
Great post Alan!
Joseph Ratliff
From SSWT forum
Author of The Profitable Business Edge 2